TRANSFORMATION OF THE KIEV DNIPRO RIVER BASIN AREA AGRICULTURE SPECIALIZATION IN POST-SOCIALIST PERIOD: METHODOLOGY, RESEARCH AND TERRITORIAL FEATURES

Abstract

The purpose of this publication - development of methodological principles and research methods of transformation processes in the area agriculture specialization, their testing on the example of Kyiv Dnieper river basin. The article highlighted stages and analyzed the state of agriculture specialization research in Ukraine. The essence has been defined and the author’s method to determine changes in the areas agricultural specialization based on matrix analysis and calculations of intensity of these changes indices has been developed. The features of agricultural specialization in Kyiv Dnieper river basin areas in post-socialist period have been defined. Transformational changes at the level of districts and the factors which cause them have discovered. Series of maps showing the features of agriculture specialization and its transformation in the Kyiv Dnieper river basin areas for the period 1990 - 2012 yrs. has been developed. The novelty of the study: the methodology for comprehensive study of changes in agriculture specialization as well as their qualitative and quantitative evaluation has been proposed and tested the first time.

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G. P. Pidgrushnyi, A. V. Marushchynets

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  • EP ID EP182533
  • DOI 10.15407/ugz2016.02.048
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G. P. Pidgrushnyi, A. V. Marushchynets (2016). TRANSFORMATION OF THE KIEV DNIPRO RIVER BASIN AREA AGRICULTURE SPECIALIZATION IN POST-SOCIALIST PERIOD: METHODOLOGY, RESEARCH AND TERRITORIAL FEATURES. Український географічний журнал, 2(), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-182533